User talk:Knechthouse

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Welcome!
Hello, Knechthouse, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Your draft
Hi. I noticed that you had moved your draft to mainspace, and that another Wikipedian had moved it to draft space because it isn't ready for mainspace yet. It's currently at Draft:Virgin Soil by George Egerton.

I made a few copyedits, but your layout doesn't follow the structure that's usual for books. Have a look at the "Books" brochure that I linked to here - it should provide some good ideas.

A second issue is that lengths of your paragraphs - they're too long to read easily. Your plot summary is something like 27 sentence long; three to five sentences is a good goal to aim for. A summary should also be less blow-by-blow than yours is, more broad strokes.

Your article also has no inline citations, which makes it difficult for readers to verify factual statements in your article. Every statement should be followed by a supporting citation; if a group of sentences are all supported by the same source, you can place a single reference after all of them, but you need to have at least one reference per paragraph, and you shouldn't have any statements after the final reference in a paragraph. If you need a refresher on how to add citations, please consult this training module. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:34, 6 December 2022 (UTC)